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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 14h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 6h

So sinister looking!

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 12h

Oh shit, ANTIFA is suiting up

From the sound of music. Seven children stand in a line inside a grand house, wearing identical light blue sailor-style uniforms with dark collars, neckties, and knee socks. They are arranged from tallest to shortest, standing at attention on a patterned rug with a staircase and ornate wall paneling behind them.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 21h

Looks like @goldfinger300.bsky.social @earthjay.bsky.social just want to make sure everyone is awake over here, with paleoseismic evidence for Cascadia triggering the northern San Andreas ⚒️🧪

"may represent direct evidence of stress triggering and partial synchronization of these two great faults"

Unravelling the dance of earthquakes: Evidence of partial synchronization of the northern San Andreas fault and Cascadia megathrust | Geosphere | GeoScienceWorld

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 8h

I wish I could! It would be nice if more people thought like that. Quit as much as you can.

Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 8h

Holy moly!

Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 12h

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8h

"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development.

Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
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Rebuilding Gaza — For Profit | Adam Tooze

YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19h

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 13h

“Again, in 2025, the national government is in the grip of determined reactionaries. And again, we see that their commitment to small government is merely rhetorical.” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | It’s Not Government They Don’t Like

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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 15h

Just another day of clicking the three dots on fossil fuel company ads and checking the “This ad is inappropriate box.”

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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 15h

Also: “Altogether, this paints a picture of a North Pacific basin in which the north-to-south (meridional) temperature differential is among the weakest it has ever been in the modern record.” Interesting! I hope to learn more about this from the recording of today’s live video.

Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 15h

“While statewide temperatures were in most cases lower than recent Septembers that featured sustained record-breaking heat, they generally ranked among the top 10-20% warmest of all September temperatures in the past ~130 years.” @weatherwest.bsky.social weatherwest.com/archives/43542

Hurricane Priscilla remnants to bring widespread Southwest rain/thunderstorms (including far SoCal); more widespread precipitation possible with colder NorCal system by mid-Oct - Weather West

An very mild September across CA, but humidity & some unusual rainfall kept fire risk low September 2025 was yet another "strange" weather month along the Pacific Coast. In California, multiple episod...

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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 15h

“While statewide temperatures were in most cases lower than recent Septembers that featured sustained record-breaking heat, they generally ranked among the top 10-20% warmest of all September temperatures in the past ~130 years.” @weatherwest.bsky.social weatherwest.com/archives/43542

Hurricane Priscilla remnants to bring widespread Southwest rain/thunderstorms (including far SoCal); more widespread precipitation possible with colder NorCal system by mid-Oct - Weather West

An very mild September across CA, but humidity & some unusual rainfall kept fire risk low September 2025 was yet another "strange" weather month along the Pacific Coast. In California, multiple episod...

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 23h

About ninety percent of all global historical emissions have been produced in the lifetime of our current president.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 17h

“The footage continued through the weekend, much of it horrifying. But at least we saw it.”

What follows in this piece by @dwallacewells.bsky.social describes federal officials’ efforts to change that. And I wonder: how much longer will we see it? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 1d

From @jamellebouie.net : “But I will say that if the experience of Lincoln suggests anything, it is that there can be no real success without principle — ironclad and unyielding.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | ‘The Most Epic Political Victory Our Country Has Ever Seen’ Is Nothing of the Kind

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d

The government’s own data rebuts Trump Admin claims that wind and solar are driving up electricity prices, Politico reports share.google/RTIXPPQMXrTH...
“[T]he data say pretty much the opposite” of Trump & Secretary Wright’s claims.

Among the 22 states that drew higher-than-average shares of their power from wind and solar, 17 had below-average electricity prices in June, according to EIA data.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 1d

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

On brand

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 3d

“Democrats need to stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow. They need to stop being lawyerly and timid.”

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

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Scott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 6d

Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com, wherein I review EXTRACTION (@wwnorton.com), a dazzling new book by @triofrancos.bsky.social.

I argue that it is "by far the most clear-eyed of mining’s many recent chronicles." www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

The Costs of the Green Transition

A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

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